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On my way to the annual RAF Mountain Rescue reunion in Newtonmore.
The late afternoon sun had started to keek below the clouds, which drew me like a magnet to this wee tump.
Risked the wrath of the Dalraddy Caravan Park folks by parking on their double yellow lines. Reasoned that, being off-season, I wasn't impeding droves of caravans entering the site.
Warned off driving up the track to Torr Alvie by a notice at the entrance.
Probably enough room for a wee car to squeeze onto the verge just beyond the the warning sign, or, going the full hog, driving over the railway bridge and utilising a grassy area by a gate into the forestry on the RHS.
- Parkup for Torr Alvie by the Daraddy Caravan Park
Wandered up the track over the railway, then up round the corner . Gained access to the field above via an overgrown track, then up through the grass field to the gate at the top. Walked up the track through an ancient pine " bridle arch" to the Waterloo Cairn, just off the main track.
- The ancient scots pine arch on the track
- The Waterloo Cairn from the track up Torr alvie
- The Waterloo Cairn
- The commemorative plaque on the Waterloo Cairn
- Looking towards Feshie from the Waterloo Cairn
Sauntered on up the path to the 5th Duke of Gordons Memorial - a mighty edifice....... and, according to the plaque - an all-round nice chap.
- 5th Duke of Gordon Memorial
- The Duke of Gordon's plaque
Dawdled back down the track into the setting sun, soaking up the ambience and snapping away, back to the car by a slightly shorter route from the other edge of the grass field.
- Looking North through the trees on Torr Alvie
- The setting sun through the birks on Torr Alvie
- Sunset through the birks on Torr Alvie
- A young sycamore outgrows the Juniper by the path on torr Alvie
- Home into the sunset on Torr Alvie
A truly uplifting walk.
And so onward to the doo at Newtonmore